Blade Tidwell got his feet wet Sunday, but before long he was soaked. The right-hander, in his major league debut, flashed 97 mph heat for the Mets and largely avoided hard contact. That didn’t stop the Cardinals from putting the ball in play to spoil his afternoon.

In his major-league debut, righthander Blade Tidwell got hit around for six runs in 3 2/3 innings. He worked through a ton of traffic on the bases — nine hits, three walks — and managed that mostly fine until the fourth inning, when St. Louis plated four runs on a pair of two-out, two-run singles from Brendan Donovan and Willson Contreras.